From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

During this year's Golden Week, a state of emergency was issued and instructions were given to refrain from moving across prefectures, so I ended up spending a week relaxing at home and in the neighborhood of my house. I thought about staying at a campsite near my house for about one night, but all the campsites were closed, and the riverbed park, barbecue area and parking lot were all closed. The use of the riverbed itself was not prohibited, so the weather was fine on May 3rd and 4th and I went to the riverbed park near my house by bicycle, set up a tent, read a book, and had a cup of tea, spending time playing catch. The riverbed of Hirakata is a place I like very much, and although there are not so many people, it was used by many families while the destination was restricted. Given that it would have been terrible if the parking lot had been opened, I think it was a wise decision to close the parking lot. May 3rd May 4rd However, if you think about it carefully, last year'

I'm sometimes surprised to know that my son's life is not so diffrent from my life at his age. Today, he showed me colorful kneaded eraser saying it is popular at his class. It is same with me at age 8-9 years old. And last week, he showed me chewing gum with clip and if I pulled out one chewing gum plate, wired spling chached my finger in the chewing gum plate. It was also popular toy 40 years ago. He also likes cartoon of doraemon, kochi-kame, which was popular when I was junior school. He used tablet PC, playing hobby drone, but he is same as me of 40 years ago. Children's nature might not be changed at any age.

Winter holiday has been passing away and today was last day of 1 week holiday. And we went to hatsumode at Narita shrine near our home. Going there is our routine work because we bought good luck charms and old charms was returned to the shrine and buy new charms.  At first, we made an offering of money. There are many people coming there. Throughing money to offertory box. Afterthat, we walked to kourien station and there are many street stalls along street. Tomorrow is first day of my job. Winter holiday has been over in a short time but enjoyed very much with my family. Hoping this year happy !

When we went to shizuoka, we went to sumpu takumi-juku and took part in plastic model making course. My son made dangan-racer which is one of mini 4WD series and enjoyed very much. Dangan-racer is small plastic-model toy car, running very fast. But it needed special circuit couse so if we want to run this car, we have to find hobby shop which has special circuit couse, so we went to hobby shop( hobby zone ) where it has special circuit couse. on 6 Sep. There were special course but too small and it is for mini 4WD. In this shop, there are many mini 4WD plastic model exhibited and they are about 1000yen included motor, not so expensive, so we want to buy it. This shop plans to do racing event this month, that's one reason we bought mini 4WD. Then we went to mini 4WD tournament. There were much people. Many people had their special tools ! We participated in junior school tournament. Race was done with 3 times rou

This day(26, Oct.) was kindergarden's festival day, his last festival. we ate lunch at kindergarden's room. There are many exhibitions and event like haunted house, bingo event. Afterthat, we harvested taro and plant japanese white raddishes. And dinner was takoyaki party!  Very happy day.

From 11 march,I was very busy. But recently I had a time to relax, so we did the picnic near my house. Now is the time for cherry blossom and felt relax. Recently due to earthquake, luxury seemed to be bad thing, but in such times, feeling relax and enjoying nature is important.

Every sunday is a day for swiming for baby class. We have been to a hirakata swiming school for about half a year. Baby class was done 3 days a week and on Sunday I swim with him.(on weekday, my wife swim with him) At first, I was not willing to the class, but recently I am accustomed to do it because it is good for health (my work is deskwork so I have little time to exercise). And after swiming time about 40 minutes, we have hot spa time and take a shower and take a lunch box at a seat. So always, we left home about 11:30 and swiming class began at 12:00 and finished eating about 14:00 and afterthat, we drive to shopping, etc. This swiming school is famous around here because Athens olympic medalist yuko nakanishi is a member of this school and I like this school.

Since we had a child about one year ago, we didn't watch TV due to my wife's principle. At first, I was against her, but some month had passed and we didn't feel unconvenient because I can catch the news from newspapers and FM radio we heard at morning time and furthermore recently internet is a part of our life so we can get many informations. And from experiencing the life without TV, I know that I wasted many time watching TV. And night time, we limited the room lights and opened the windows and heard the sound of trees and leaves touching each other and there are no sound without them so we feel living in the country side. And I can relaxly hearing music, playing with kid, reading books at home. I like that kind of style very much. Below was the picture of "bon odori", the traditional gathering at summer nights, dancing with traditional japanese songs. He liked bon-odori very much !

Here is Komeda's coffee. It is very popular cafe shop around nagoya-pref. and this is Komeda's first shop at kansai region and was opend recently so we went there. #Map

At Nov. 2, we ate lunch at french restaurant  near my home for marriage anniversary (a little late due to my baby). We left our baby to our parent and went to the restaurant (but took one minute from our parent's home to the restaurant and also about 3 minutes from our home to our parent's home ! ) Good bye our baby for about two hours ! Before lunch. an hors d’oeuvre Main dishes dessert Bought cakes for wife's parents (thanks for baby-sitter ) and us In front of the restaurant.

Today, moon is very beautiful in the clouds, so I took pictures. If I fly up from earth, far away from earth and moon, I can see earth and moon close to each other in black space. A little dark setting up. Adjust sensitivity ( we can also see our home. )

Okui zome is a japanese ceremony not to eat forever his life. It is usually done 100 days after baby's born, but in our case a little late. It is a ceremony so baby really don't eat (baby pretended to eat ) At first, I didn't know the ceremony but my wife's parents said to my wife that it must be done because my wife and my wife's brother also did it. finished settings. A sea bream. He sat on his grandfather's legs. When he eat, suddenly he cried ! Crying ! ! Crying ! ! ! His grandmother had a black stone and it is also ceremony. Finished ceremony. He might feel safe, maybe.